A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : and the afflicted applying to him, to whom only is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human prevalent miseries ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases.

  • Sylvan, pseud.
Date:
1814
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    licve in the sincerity of their concern and sorrow, when beholding the raging enemy, snatching out of the world, the half of the population, and the other half afterwards remaining infected, and prefer to have them all perish sooner, than to apply, where they could get relief, and also in order to prevent the danger of contagion, erect stupendous and costly monument, and have the one whose knowledge and remedy could have extirpated the scourge, in one day, receive for reward, if he had dared to prove it and to do it, to experience the martyrdom of his reputation, life, and estate. Hence, if time has corroborated the accuracy of the physical Brittannic ora- cles, can it be denied that the ardent persecutors and in- trepid calumniators of those, who can be of such a ser- vice to the human race, by their deeds, make the tacit avowal, that pestilences, and their destroying effects are the predilected objects of their tender hearts' fancy, as well as to enjoy for them the enticing view of a uni- versal mourning dress, and human depopulation, and with that, to have the one of multiplied widows &. orphans, and the bewitching sight of hobbling invalids. And with this by their reluctance, opposition, and persecution of those, who have knowledge to prevent human maladies, and cure them in their first stage, then they positively tell to those who are deprived of sight, and those who are threatened of the danger: the beholding of your af- fliction, and to see you, without being able to see those who like us are in possession of compassionating hearts, is great misfortune, but find enjoyment in your being de- stituted of the most precious sense, that living creatures can have upon earth, is a pleasure that we cannot part with; therefore, the one who shall dare to give you as- sistance, and shall succeed in it, will receive for reward the martyrdom of his reputation, life, and estate.—And also to receive such a common reward, largely be- stowed, if any ones are threatened of being devoured alive, and to have their flesh eated up by the woful can- cerous infection, and to prevent it, if the bounty and wisdom of the heavenly Healer, has created efficacious specific, in the intention of saving mankind from perish-